OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mass Communication and Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	51
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy	33
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias	30
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China	28
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies	27
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information	26
Turning off Populism? Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management on Political Information Avoidance	25
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data	25
The Third-Person Effect in Election Campaigns: Individual Voter Campaign Stability and Perceptions of Campaign Influence	25
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic	23
The Perils of Social Media: Cyberbullying Shame and Fame	23
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive	22
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power	21
News from Every Angle: On the Potential of Implementing Virtual Reality Technology in Journalistic Contexts	21
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach	20
Moral Comments in Social Media: Analyzing the Role of Ideology-Matching Moral Framing and Impression Motivation in the Persuasive Effect of User Comments on YouTube	20
Threat Level Midnight: Examining the Relationship Between Threatening Language and Engagement with Non-Partisan, Partisan, and Hyper-Partisan Media on Facebook	16
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences	15
Unmasking Media Narratives: Shaping Public Perspectives on China–U.S. Relations Amid the Pandemic	15
Examining Comfort Media: A Tool for Self-Regulation and Refuge?	15
Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning	14
Understanding Digital Campaign Competence: Conceptualizing Data-Driven Political Advertising Literacy	14
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research	13
Who Speaks Out, Why, and How? The Influence of Hostile Media Perception, Attitude Extremity, and Political Efficacy on Social Media Outspokenness	12
Communicating Science, Climate Change, and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths	12

Television and the Mainstreaming of Political Attitudes: A 40-Year Comparison	12
The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media	10
Countering Misinformation in Political Reporting: Enhancing Journalistic Legitimacy	9
Unequal Framing in Times of Hardship? How Newspapers from Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Switzerland Portray Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees – Evidence from a Deductive and Inductive Automated C	9
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism	9
Does Exposure to Online News Media Depend on Individuals’ Political Attitudes and Trust in These Media? A Comparison Between Declarative and Behavioral Data	9
How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning	9
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men	9
A Direct and Indirect Effect of Third-Person Perception of COVID-19 Fake News on Support for Fake News Regulations on Social Media: Investigating the Role of Negative Emotions and Political Views	9
Pragmatics OnlineKate Scott. Pragmatics Online . New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, 178 pp., ISBN No. 9781138368590, £130.00 (hardback).	9
Uncovering Frame Building in German Media? The Influence of German Politicians on Media Framing During the Energy and Gas Crisis 2022	9
User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues	8
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use	8
Adolescents’ Remembering of Sexual Television Narratives and Their Relations with Positive Sexuality Components: A Biographic Resonance Perspective	8
Newspaper Salience and Majority Members’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Ethno-Racial Minority Discrimination in the Netherlands	8
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions	8
How It Ends: Exploring How Narrative Closure and Character Outcomes in Series Finales Relate to Viewer Responses and Coping Behaviors	8
Agenda-Setting Dynamics Between Local, National Media and Twitter in the Context of the Uvalde School Shooting	8
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports	7
Understanding the Impact of Anger-Evoking and Efficacy-Eliciting Tweets in White Support for the BLM Movement	7
News Media Use and Crime Perceptions: The Dual Role of Ideology	7
Society Frowns Upon Spinning and So Do the Alleged Spin Doctors: Tests of Present and Future Crisis Communicators Responding to Spin in the Media	7
Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs	7
“Truth Sandwich” To Dispel Crisis Misinformation: Exploring the Separate and Combined Impacts of Inoculation, Narratives, and Stealing Thunder on Correcting Crisis Misinformation on Social Media	7
Support of Restricting—and Specific Presumed Effects of—Violent Media Content Primarily Reflect the Motive to Protect Oneself from Physical Threats	6
Threatened or Activated? Exploring Dual Mechanisms Underlying the Longitudinal Pro-Environmental Effect of Science Fiction Engagement	6
On the Road to Sustainability: Themes and Strategies Used by Greenfluencers on Instagram and Their Impact on User Engagement	6
Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television	6
Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?	6
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters	6
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety	6
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict	6
Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives	5
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert	5
Evidence of Ambivalent Sexism in Female Video Game Character Designs	5
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television	5
Reading Faces: The Power of Facial Expressions as Visual Cues in Reports of Social Movements	5
The Representation of Public Opinion in Routine U.S. Network News	5
“There’s Always a Way to Get the Story”: Rural Journalism and Resourcefulness at the Periphery	5
Exploring Attitudes Toward Discrimination: The Role of News Media Consumption, News Media Trust, Discriminatory Experiences, and Intergroup Contact	5
The Power of Populist Discourses: The Effect of Populist Radical Left and Right Rhetoric on Political Preferences	5
“Media Pressure is What Makes Law Enforcement Move”: Insights from Co-victims About the Positive Impacts of True Crime Media Attention	5
Does Creativity Make Even Cruel Prank TV Shows Funny? Exploring the double-Edged Sword Effects of Creativity	5
“Sometimes, We Do Bad Things for the People We Love”: Exploring Emerging Adults’ Perceptions and Endorsement of Intimate Partner Violence on Television	4
Advancing Communication Infrastructure Theory: The Moderating Roles of Citizen Journalism Practice and Political Trust on Online Civic Participation	4
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation as Mediators Between News Media Consumption and Perceived Migrant Threat	4
When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection	4
The Role of Audiovisuals in Counter-Framing Dynamics: A Longitudinal Experiment on Causal Responsibility Attribution	4
Theorizing Connective Democracy: A New Way to Bridge Political Divides	4
The Impact of Familiarity with a Communicator on the Persuasive Effectiveness of Pandemic-Related Fear Appeals Explained Through Parasocial Relationships	4

Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs	4
Mapping the Media Genome: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of News Framing of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits	4
Worn Out & Tuned Out: Does Politics Fatigue on Social Media Foster Participatory Inequality Among Americans?	4
Humor in Satirical News Headlines: Analyzing Humor Form and Content, and Their Relations with Audience Engagement	4
The Doctor and the Algorithm: Promise, Peril, and the Future of Health AI	4
Contextualizing Representations of Violence in #Blacklivesmatter Coverage with Inductive Computational Content Analysis	4
Scriptwriters’ Conceptions of Audience Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ Characters	4
Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and CommoditiesSuddhabrata Deb Roy. *Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and Commodities*	4
Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective	3
The Attention Economy and How Media Works	3
Beyond Perceived Similarity: Development and Validation of the Character Recognizability Scale (CRS)	3
A Meta-Analytical Review of the Determinants of Social Media Discontinuance Intentions	3
News Literacy and Critical Thinking in the Pacific: Evidence from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands	3
How Propagandistic is International News Channels’ Reporting? A Content Analysis of YouTube Uploads from the Nine Most Important International News Channels	3
Breaking Agenda Setting Boundaries: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Understanding Salience of Gun Control in the Polarized Public Sphere	3
Intention to Participate in Social Activism Activities in Response to Corporate Social Advocacy: A Third-Person Effect Perspective	3
From Intentional Avoidance to Estrangement? A Longitudinal Study of News Avoidance and News Media Repertoires in Sweden	2
Politically Contested Beliefs: Support for Trump Better Predicts Having Inaccurate Beliefs About COVID-19 Than Conservative/Republican Political Identity	2
Linguistic Inference Framing: A Linguistic Category Approach to Framing Crisis	2
A Toxic Feedback Loop? The Relationship Between Performance-Contingent Self-Esteem and Toxic Communication in Adolescent Videogame Play	2
Opinion Leadership via Conversation: How Opinion Leaders Talk About the Media	2
Life in Media: A Global Introduction to Media Studies	2
Losing the Plot: Transportation as a Predictor of Engagement with Misinformation	2
How Right-Wing Media, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Circulated Antipathy and Threat Cues About Immigrants: A Cross-Media and Cross-Platform Approach	2
Political Economy of Media and Communication: Methodological Approaches	2
An Unholy Alliance? The Influence of Negative Emotions Elicited by Media Reports on the Persuasiveness of Populist Communication	2
Share to Stop the Harm: How Social Media Metrics Drive Sharing of Fact-Checking Messages via First-Person Perception	2
How Does Misinformation Affect Health Behavior? Examining the Roles of Information Source, Information Processing, and Health Belief in the Context of COVID-19	2
Action Frames, Network Structure, and Online Movement Mobilization: Evidence from the Facebook Ad Boycott Campaign	2
Empowerment or Strain: How Social Media Shapes Parenting Ideologies and Mental Health Among New Mothers in China?	2
Cumulative Exposure: Scholarly Responses to 50 Years of Cultivation Research	2
An Experiment on the Press Coverage of Child Sexual Abuse: Can Readers Differentiate Between Good and Bad Reporting?	2
The Effects of Responsibility Frames and Stigmatizing Headlines in News on Support for COVID-19 Policies in Korea	2
Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation	2
The Viral Water Cooler: Talking About Political Satire Promotes Further Political Discussion	2
I Do Not (Want To) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption	2
Unique Motivations of the Underserved: Exploring Repertoire, Self-Identified, and Topical News Avoidance Among Black Adults	1
The Emotional Power of Partisan Media: A Computer Vision Analysis of the 2020 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries	1
Who Says “Muslims Are Not Terrorists”? News Differentiation, Muslim versus Non-Muslim Sources, and Attitudes toward Muslims	1
Automating Distrust? How Concerns About Algorithmic News Curation Influence News Use and Trust	1
The Model Family: The Effect of Multiracial Families in Advertising on Emerging Adult Consumers’ Attitudes and Intentions	1
Exposure to Higher Rates of False News Erodes Media Trust and Fuels Overconfidence	1
News Consumption, Military Interventionism, and Support for Anti-Democratic Movements	1
Norm Setting in Times of Crisis: A Time-Series Analysis of the Dynamics Between Media Reporting and Perceived Norms in the Context of the COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-Out	1
‘Look at How Corrupt They Are!’: How Anti-Political Discourse from Politicians Affects Their Own Image and the Image of Politics	1
How Communication Ecology Impacts Disaster Support Seeking in Multiethnic Communities: The Roles of Disaster Communication Network Size, Heterogeneity, and Localness	1
Seeing “Us” and “Them”: How Political Symbols Polarize Through Anger, Anxiety, and Enthusiasm	1
Social Media and Substance Use Among Young Hispanic EDM Attendees: A Perspective on Prototype Perceptions	1
Explaining Mainstream News Media Use in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Partisanship, Perceptions of Threat, Negative Emotions, and News Media Trust	1
Understanding Social Media Use and Political Participation: A Lens of Social Media Social Capital and Gender Dynamics	1
Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of Communication: A Critical Review of Two Perspectives	1
Visuals as Identity Markers in Political Communication on Social Media: Evidence for Effects of Visual Cues in Liberals, but Not in Conservatives	1
Gothic Pride: Examining the Effects of American Gothic Television on Sexual Minority Youth’s Sexual Identity Affirmation and Psychological well-Being	1
The Impact of Political Ideology on News Consumption: The Mediating Role of Trust and the Moderating Role of Interest in Politics	1
More of the Same? Homogenization in News Recommendations When Users Search on Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter	1
Media & Mental Health: A Complex Relationship Worth Empirical Investigation	1
Intimate and Opinion-Oriented Communication? Examining Social Media Influencers’ Opinion Leader Potential Through Their Political Content	1
Does Length Matter? The Impact of Fact-Check Length in Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation	1
Political Leadership in Disaster and Crisis Communication and Management: International Perspectives and Practices	1
Disentangling the Two Cognitive Outcomes of Corrective Information: The Role of Motivation, Cognitive Abilities, and Partisanship in Recall and Belief	1
Moral Foundations, Ideological Divide, and Public Engagement with U.S. Government Agencies’ COVID-19 Vaccine Communication on Social Media	1
It Sounds Important: Examining the Effects of Background Music and Popularity Cues on Evaluations of Risk-Related Short-Form News Videos	1
Picturing Tragedy: A Content Analysis of the Publication of Graphic Images in Newspapers	1
AI in the Newsroom: How Presentation of AI Anchor and Viewers’ Familiarity with AI Shape Perceptions of AI Anchor	1
Encouraging Positive Dialog Toward COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media Using Hope Appeals, Celebrity Types, and Emoticons	1
COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic PerspectivesJohn C. Pollock and Douglas A. Vakoch (Eds.). COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspective	1
Exploring Smart Device Privacy: An Examination of Factors Affecting User Concerns, Protection, Satisfaction with Privacy Defense, and Need for Regulations	1
Time to ‘Wine’: A Content Analysis Investigating How Social Media Influencers Refer to Alcohol Use in Instagram’s Feed Posts and Stories	1
Does Social Media Promote or Hinder Health Learning? The Roles of Media Attention, Information Discussion, Information Elaboration, and Information Seeking Experience	1
The Psychology of Evolving Technology: How Social Media, Influencer Culture and New Technologies are Altering Society	1
Resurrecting Historical Figures: The Persuasive Power of Deepfakes versus Text-Based First-Person Narratives	1
To Trust or Not to Trust? Exploring the Roles of Facebook and WhatsApp Use and Network Diversity	1
Why Do People Underestimate Polling Effects? Examining the Gap Between Actual and Perceived Polling Effects	1
The Interrelationships Between Adolescents’ Online Affective Perceptions and Momentary Affect: An ESM Study on Affective Social Media Use	1
The Relationship Between Social Media Use and Cosmetic Surgery Consideration: A Systematic Review and Three-Level Meta-Analysis	1
The Effects of Peer Mental Illness Narratives on Reducing Stigma Among U.S. Marginalized College Students	1
Communication Technology and Gender Violence	1